Politico Thursday October 17, 2024
Japan’s government admitted recently that it edited a photo of ministers to fix their untidy appearance before posting it online. Eagle-eyed digital sleuths noted the picture—a group photo of Japan’s new Cabinet—appeared to have been digitally manipulated by comparing an unedited snap taken by Japanese media with the official photo posted on the prime minister’s website. Politico compares the brouhaha to the flap earlier this year over a digitally manipulated family photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales and her children.
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SFMOMA Thursday October 17, 2024
On view at SFMOMA though Feb. 9. 2025, is the exhibition “Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit”—the first West Coast retrospective of work by a critical yet overlooked figure in the history of modern photography. (The exhibition originated at the Brooklyn Museum.) Kanaga was one of the first women to become a staff photojournalist at a major newspaper — The San Francisco Chronicle — in the 1910s. Over six decades, she championed the artistic value of photography and documented urgent social issues, from urban poverty to racial inequality.
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Digital Camera World Thursday October 17, 2024
The release of the Apple Vision Pro earlier this year promises to forever change the future of media consumption with a particular focus on creating new immersive cinematic experiences, notes Digital Camera World, which features a behind-the-scenes video from Apple's YouTube channel that shows the filmmaking process for the Vision Pro. The video captures Academy Award-winning filmmakers Edward Berger and James Friend at work on their film Submerged, the first scripted film created for the Apple Vision Pro.
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CNN Thursday October 17, 2024
Syrian refugees who have survived war now are casualties of the climate change crisis: Droughts in Jordan, home to 621,000 Syrian refugees, have forced families to constantly relocate in search of agricultural work. The consequences of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable populations weighs heavily on photographer Nick Brandt, notes CNN, which features his latest series, “The Echo of Our Voices.” Says Brandt, “What motivates me most is the injustice.”
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